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The following natural or legal persons shall be deemed to have a legitimate interest to access the information listed in paragraph 1: (a) persons acting for the purpose of journalism, reporting or any other form of expression in the media, that are connected with the prevention or combating of money laundering, its predicate offences or terrorist financing; (b) civil society organisations, including non-governmental organisations and academia, that are connected with the prevention or combating of money laundering, its predicate offences or terrorist financing; (c) natural or legal persons likely to enter into a transaction with a legal entity or legal arrangement and who wish to prevent any link between such a transaction and money laundering, its predicate offences or terrorist financing; (d) entities subject to AML/CFT requirements in third countries, provided they can demonstrate the need to access the information referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to a legal entity or legal arrangement to perform customer due diligence in respect of a customer or prospective customer pursuant to AML/CFT requirements in those third countries; (e) third-country counterparts of Union AML/CFT competent authorities provided they can demonstrate the need to access the information referred to in paragraph 1 in relation to a legal entity or legal arrangement to perform their tasks under the AML/CFT frameworks of those third countries in the context of a specific case; (f) Member State authorities in charge of implementing Title I, Chapters II and III of Directive (EU) 2017/1132, in particular the authorities in charge of the registration of companies in the register referred to in Article 16 of that Directive, and Member State authorities responsible for scrutinising the legality of conversions, mergers and divisions of limited liability companies pursuant to Title II of that Directive; (g) programme authorities identified by Member States pursuant to Article 71 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060, in respect of beneficiaries of Union funds; (h) public authorities implementing the Recovery and Resilience Facility under Regulation (EU) 2021/241, in respect of beneficiaries under the Facility; (i) Member States’ public authorities in the context of public procurement procedures, in respect of the tenderers and operators being awarded the contract under the public procurement procedure; (j) providers of AML/CFT products, to the strict extent that products developed on the basis of the information referred to in paragraph 1 or containing that information are provided only to customers that are obliged entities or competent authorities provided that those providers can demonstrate the need to access the information referred to in paragraph 1 in the context of a contract with an obliged entity or a competent authority. In addition to the categories identified under the first subparagraph, Member States shall also ensure that other persons who are able to demonstrate a legitimate interest with respect to the purpose of preventing and combating money laundering, its predicate offences and terrorist financing, are granted access to beneficial ownership information on a case-by-case basis.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-09-04